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The Bizarre History of Netanyahu’s Nuclear Iran Crisis
The best way to predict a war is to start one.
January 1992. Rising Israeli parliamentarian, Benjamin Netanyahu, stands before the Knesset and delivers a chilling warning to the world:
Within three to five years, we can assume that Iran will become autonomous in its ability to develop and produce a nuclear bomb. [This nuclear threat] must be uprooted by an international front headed by the U.S.
February 1995. Three years later, it appears that Netanyahu’s assumption was wrong. But undeterred, he appears on CBS News to make…oh, exactly the same prediction:
Iran will be capable of producing — alone, without importing anything — nuclear bombs within three to five years.
December 2006. Eleven years have passed since Iran was three to five years away from producing nuclear bombs. And as Netanyahu explains on the Glenn Beck Show, that means a nuclear Iran is now only a year — or perhaps a decade — away:
I believe the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, just found traces of plutonium and uranium for the production of atomic bombs […] Iran is gearing up to […] produce 25 bombs, atomic bombs a year, 250 bombs in a decade.
